Chapter 829: Preparing for War
"One to twenty?" The middle-aged man was slightly stunned, nodded, and said, "This price is fair, with your family's current situation, I'm afraid you will give it if you ask for a little more." After speaking, the middle-aged man pondered for a long time and said, "Old man, for your sake, I will definitely help you get this batch of materials, but I'm afraid you won't be able to enjoy such a big discount at this price, and the amount of materials you want is really a bit large......"
Before the middle-aged man could finish speaking, Domon spoke, "As long as you can get the materials, money is not a problem, when is this coming? The family business is gone, isn't it for people to have more money?" At this moment, a touch of sadness also appeared on Domon's face, as if the Nording family was about to be wiped out.
The middle-aged man was also stunned when he saw Domon's appearance, and then sighed, patted Domon's shoulder, and said, "No matter when, we will always be brothers, if it really can't work, bring nephews and nieces and them, come to me to avoid it, no matter how arrogant the Lange family is, they will not dare to clash head-on with the Enchantment Hall." ”
Grabbing the middle-aged man's hand on his shoulder, Domon's heart was also moved, when he was still an intern in the Enchantment Hall, he thought about learning enchantment from this middle-aged man, but unfortunately, he had almost no talent for practicing enchantment, but at that time, he formed a fairly deep relationship with this middle-aged man. Later, when Domon's internship ended, when he left, the middle-aged man invited him to his home for a light meal, but this friendship also ended with Domon's departure.
Unexpectedly, a few years ago, the middle-aged man was transferred to the branch of Dores City by the Enchanted Hall, and the two met again.
As the saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and there are various factions in the Enchantment Hall, and this middle-aged man himself is average in strength, and he is on the wrong team, so he was assigned to this Dores City. Although the city of Dores is also a frontier town, its significance is only to deal with the demonic beasts, and there is no dispute with neighboring countries. Therefore, only when the beast tide comes, this Dores City will be lively for a while, and there is hardly a large flow of people here, and caravans are rare.
After coming here, the middle-aged man also thought of Domon, who almost became his student's old friend, and went to the Notting family manor with a relaxed mood, but he didn't expect to really meet Domon who had just returned from Fran City, and the two met at the first time, and Domon was very moved by the middle-aged man just like he was at the beginning. Originally, Domon still wanted to perform the teacher-student ceremony, but was sternly rejected by the middle-aged man, so the two have always been called brothers now.
The middle-aged man groaned slightly, and said slowly, "I'll go to the material library, you wait for me here, and we'll hand over here in a while." With that, the middle-aged man walked out of the office slowly.
The waiting time is always long, especially at this moment, with the mood of Domon, waiting here feels even longer, and the middle-aged man has not come back for a long time.
"Squeak" Just when Domon was waiting a little impatiently, the middle-aged man pushed the door and walked in.
"How's it going?" Domon asked with some eagerness when he saw the middle-aged man come in.
"Fortunately, I was not dishonored. As he spoke, the middle-aged man took out an ordinary space ring and handed it to Domon, saying, "Look at it, it's not these things." As he spoke, he handed the list in his other hand to Domon.
"Brother is doing things, how can Domon not be trustworthy, these materials are expensive?" After Domon put away the space ring, he looked up at the middle-aged man and asked.
"Forget it this time, these materials are all accumulated by me over the years, just when I help you, there are a lot of eyeliner of the Lange family here, I didn't dare to mention it from the material library, so as not to cause trouble for you." The middle-aged man smiled and waved his hand.
"How can this make my brother able to help my brother, my brother is already very grateful to you, if I let you break the bank again, then what will I be? You collect this money, although it is not much, but it is also a little bit of meaning to be a brother. As he spoke, a crystal card appeared in Domon's hand, and although the middle-aged man refused a few times, he was finally forced into Domon's hand.
"Since you have a heart, old man, I will accept it. As he spoke, he groaned slightly, stretched out his right hand, and a silver light flashed, and he saw three enchantment balls exuding rich spiritual power appear in the middle-aged man's hand. The middle-aged man looked down at the enchantment ball in his hand, raised his head and said to Domon, "These three fifth-level enchantment balls, although they are not high-end goods, they are also things that I have carefully made over the years, so I will give them to you, brother, I hope you and the Nordin family can get through this difficulty." With that, he put the three enchanted balls in Domon's hand.
Looking at the enchanted ball in his hand, a trace of emotion welled up in Domon's eyes, the world often says, the icing on the cake is easy, it is difficult to send charcoal in the snow, and the middle-aged man can send these three enchanted balls at this time, which shows his feelings for himself. Thinking of this, Domon did not shirk, and carefully put away the three enchanted balls. After the matter was done, Domon did not delay any longer, and said goodbye to the middle-aged man, the middle-aged man still sent Domon to the back door, watching Domon leave slowly, watching the carriage disappear at the end of the road, the middle-aged man sighed, as if he remembered himself back then, and a trace of loneliness flashed in his eyes.
Jingchen didn't leave his room today, even if it was breakfast, it was sent into his room by the servant, he ate in the room, no one knew what Jingchen was busy with, but thinking of what Jingchen promised to do for the patriarch Domeng last night, no one dared to disturb Jingchen.
This guest room is very tidy, although there are not many furnishings, but it also shows the atmosphere of the rich and noble, if someone else breaks in, you will be surprised to find that at this moment in Jingchen's room, Jingchen is not alone, an old man with a faint white light is sitting opposite Jingchen.
"Teacher, do you think I'm fit to fuse this fragment right now?" Jingchen dragged the fragment of the scroll he had obtained by completing the mission of the Earth Watch Council in one hand, and looked up at Rios on the other side.
After a moment's hesitation, Rios said slowly, "Although you have fused this fragment of the page, which can once again exude the energy that can actively protect you within this silver ring, I think this is not a good time to fuse. After a pause, Rios continued, "First of all, the silver energy is not controlled by you, but the completely spontaneous behavior of this silver ring, when you were not strong, it was nothing, and now with the improvement of your strength, it will undoubtedly waste a lot of energy; ”
Listening to Ríos's words, Jingchen also nodded slightly, and looked down at the silver ring, this silver ring did help Jingchen a lot when he first obtained it, and even saved Jingchen's life, but with the improvement of Jingchen's strength and the increase of life-saving means, the role of this silver ring can only be said to be better than nothing. After all, as Rios said, the protection of this silver ring was not transferred by his consciousness.
"Actually, these are nothing, the most important thing is that every time you fuse, you need to consume a lot of blood, and the consumption of blood is not something that can be regenerated in a short time, and now the battle between the Nordin family and the Lange family is imminent, so I don't recommend you to fuse this fragment. Ríos concluded.
"Well, I see, after this incident, let's find time to fuse this fragment, and I'm not in a hurry now. Jingchen nodded in response.
In the distance, three people walked from the direction of the Odin Mountains, all three of them were wearing robes similar to magicians' robes, with huge hoods covering their faces, but it was not difficult to see from the figure that the two people walking in front should be men, and the one walking behind was a woman.
The three of them slowly walked to the north gate of Dores City, only to hear one of them say in a somewhat old voice, "It's been more than four months, and I finally don't have to face those demonic beasts all day long, eating demonic beast meat all day long, and the birds are going to fade out of my mouth." ”
"Old ghost, you still say, you are here to save your students, and what about me? I was completely deceived by you, you still dare to complain, be careful that I kill you!" There was a smell of vicissitudes in this voice, and it was obvious that this person was probably not too young.
Hearing this voice, the person who spoke before smiled awkwardly, and stopped talking, and the three of them walked slowly towards Dores City.
Since he got the enchantment materials sent by Domon personally at noon that day, Jingchen has even rested for two hours instead of cultivating the starry sky every day in addition to eating, and he has been sitting in the house behind closed doors all day long, rushing to make these enchantment balls. Jingchen is the kind of person who doesn't agree, as long as he agrees, he will do his best, so for what Domeng entrusts, Jingchen is also doing his best, and strives to do his best.
Of course, it is worth mentioning that in the nearly three days of continuous production of the enchantment ball, the wild magic power in Jingchen's body actually broke through to the sixth-level intermediate level unconsciously, with his current strength, not only is it stronger than Kunde, even if it is against an ordinary sixth-level high-level powerhouse, with Jingchen's many means, it is also easy.
During the period when Jingchen was refining the enchantment ball behind closed doors, the atmosphere between the Nording family and the Lange family in Dores City was also becoming more and more tense, and on the second day of Jingchen's closed-door refining of the enchantment ball, the Lange family saw the opportunity and took back many of the shops occupied by the Bennotin family, and some small families who were still watching suddenly threw themselves into the arms of the Lange family, and for a while, the Nordin family was also very passive.
Fortunately, Kunde came forward in time with a group of people, and also stifled the arrogance of the Lange family, and snatched several large shops of the Lange family in one fell swoop.
It was night, in the Notting Family Chamber.
"Damn, these grandsons of the Lange family are actually playing yin, those big shops have been destroyed by the Lange family who are leaving, even if they want to repair it, I'm afraid it won't be a matter of a while, this time it's a big loss!" A middle-aged man sitting on the right hand side who looked a little like Domeng said angrily.
Tomorrow is the day of the gambling fight, at this moment in the hall, the core members of the Nordin family are all present, at this moment, everyone's face is a little gloomy, obviously, these core members of the Nordin family are not in a good mood at the moment.
"These things that have been released in advance, tomorrow's gambling fight, how are the preparations?" Kunde sighed, he didn't care about these gains and losses at the moment, he was concerned about tomorrow's gambling fight, if he lost tomorrow, it would be useless to grab more shops now, and even the Nordin family would not exist at that time, and those shops would naturally have to be renamed.
The middle-aged man who had just spoken had a stunned expression, and then smiled bitterly, "What else?" We have invited all those who can be invited, but I heard that Byron may come, and most of them have not replied, and those who come are all friends with the family, but they still seem a little thin." "It's true, the Nording family has also been taken care of by Domont in the past few years, and it has gradually gained power, and the accumulation of contacts is naturally not comparable to the Lange family, and I heard that it is possible to offend a sixth-level enchanter, many people are also retreating, don't say please, even if they are hired, they are not willing to come.
At this moment, everyone's eyes were focused on Domon, although Domon, as the head of the family, was not outstanding, but his resourcefulness has always been admired by the older generation of the family, otherwise the previous head of the family would not have let Domon, his nephew, inherit the family business.
I saw Domon, who was sitting on the main seat, nodded with a gloomy face, he had expected this situation a long time ago, even if the Lange family did not invite Byron, but no one was willing to take this risk for his Nording family, after all, the friendship is still shallow, which is also human nature.
"I don't know what happened to those enchantment balls made by Master Jingchen......" In the hall, I don't know who whispered.
Hearing this, many people in the hall were stunned, they raised their heads and looked around for a long time, but they really didn't find Jingchen's figure, it stands to reason that such an important occasion should not be without Jingchen, at this moment, many people's hearts are slightly shocked, if this young strong man does not help the Nordin family, then this gambling fight may not even be necessary.
"Fuding, where is Xiaochen?" Domon raised his head and looked at his son suspiciously, he clearly remembered that he had just asked Fuding to personally invite Jingchen to come to the meeting hall, and Fuding was already present at this moment, but Jingchen was nowhere to be seen, and his heart couldn't help but sink a little.
"Dad, you don't have to worry, I went to find Boss Jing just now, and when I saw that he was still making enchantment balls, I withdrew and didn't bother him, but he also saw me at that time, and I thought that I would come after I was busy for a while." As he spoke, Ferding looked out of the hall.
In the corner of the hall, there are the young generation of the Nordin family, looking at the gloomy faces of their parents, they don't dare to interject indiscriminately, this oppressive atmosphere has a kind of fear in their hearts.
"Sister Shu Ya, I heard that Master Jingchen is about the same age as us, is he really that strong? The hopes of our Nording family are actually pinned on him?" A little girl sitting next to Miss Shu Ya asked softly about Shu Ya beside her, this Shu Ya looked less than twenty years old, her black hair hung down to her waist, and a pair of bright eyes were embedded in her pretty face like beautiful jade, and she was so delicate and moving.
Hearing this, Shu Ya smiled slightly, and said in a low voice, "That Master Jingchen is a fifth-level enchanter, and he is not yet twenty years old, and he is an extremely powerful existence, such a genius and brilliant person, not to mention our French Empire, even if it is on the entire continent, I am afraid it will be difficult to find the second one." After speaking, Shu Ya's face also flashed with awe, even if Jingchen's age is not mentioned, a fifth-level enchanter alone is enough to make most people awe-inspired, not to mention, this fifth-level enchanter is still a young man under the age of twenty.
"A fifth-level enchanter under the age of twenty?!" the little girl seemed to think of something, and a hint of awe flashed on her delicate little face.
On this continent, many people are not in awe of the enchanters themselves, but the connections behind those enchanters, this is like a chain reaction, once someone touches the enchanter, the retribution must be endless, just thinking about the scene of being beaten to death by someone is enough to make anyone's heart chill.
"If only I could become an enchanter...... the little girl said with some wistfulness.
"Alas. Shu Ya sighed softly and didn't say much, in this world, there are many people who want to become an enchanter, even if she herself has had a dream of becoming an enchanter, but unfortunately, the reality is cruel, not only her Shu Ya, but countless people's dreams are shattered in the face of that harsh test. Having said that, it is precisely because the conditions for becoming an enchanter are so harsh, that is why the enchanters on this continent are so popular, otherwise any person can become an enchanter, how can the enchanter make the major families so crazy.
"Don't be delusional, if you have the potential to become an enchanter, the family will already focus on cultivating you, and you can still sit with the rest of us?" a little boy sitting next to the little girl unceremoniously poured a basin of cold water on her.
The little girl who was a little sluggish by the little boy pouted, and when she was about to cry, a hearty laugh suddenly sounded in the hall, and the owner of the laughter said slightly apologetically, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I've made you wait for a long time, Xiaochen, I'm here to apologize to you." ”
At this moment, whether the old or the young, the male or the female, everyone's eyes were focused on the person who spoke, although they had heard a lot of rumors about this Jingchen master, but when they really saw it, many people still let out a low cry, they really didn't expect that this Jingchen was really so young, it looked like he was fifteen or sixteen years old, many people were so shocked by this reality that they couldn't even speak, they could only look at Jingchen in a daze.
After laughing, Jingchen's face turned pale, turned his head to look at Domon on the main seat, and said slowly, "Thanks to Uncle Domeng, I can look up to me Jingchen, and I should do my best, but Jingchen's strength alone is also limited, and I ask Uncle Domont to prepare more." The meaning of what Jing Chen said is obvious, after all, this is a battle between two big families, his strength alone is limited after all, even if he tries his best, I am afraid that he cannot decide the victory or defeat by his own strength.
Domeng naturally heard the meaning of Jingchen's words, and hurriedly said, "Xiaochen, don't worry, I will naturally arrange this." After a slight groan, Domon said with a little twist, "Xiao Chen, since you are not weak in enchantment, can you ...... Can you make some fifth-level enchantment balls for my Notting family?...... this way" Saying that, Domon looked up at Jingchen, if there were fifth-level enchantment balls, this time the matter would be much more certain, after all, although the puppet needs to be controlled by people, its strength is still there.
"Level 5......" Jing Chen hesitated slightly, Kunde thought that Jing Chen was embarrassed, and hurriedly said to Domeng, "Now that time is so tight, how can you still let Xiao Chen make those enchantment balls? After speaking, he glared at Domon with a hint of confusion in his eyes.
At this time, Jing Chen waved his hand and said, "Master Kunde misunderstood, it's not that Xiao Chen doesn't want to make an enchantment ball for you, I was just thinking about something just now......" After a slight hesitation, Jing Chen said, "I'm afraid it's not very useful to make an ordinary enchantment ball, and it's true that only a fifth-level puppet may be able to come in handy." As soon as Jingchen raised his hand to ask for a pen and paper, he began to write, and after a short time, he wrote a list and handed it to Domon.
Although Domon had never studied enchantment, he had worked in the enchantment hall for a period of time during his early internship, and he happened to be in charge of material work, and he knew all the materials needed for this enchantment, but after he took this list, he was still startled by the things recorded on it.
"Domon, what are you doing?" Seeing the complicated color flashing on his son's face, Kunde was also stunned, and secretly said in his heart, even if what Jingchen wanted was a little difficult, it shouldn't be so obvious on his face, doesn't it make people feel that they are stingy.
"Ah?!It's okay, it's okay......" Kunde's words seemed to startle Domeng, and he hurriedly put away the surprise on his face, looked at Jingchen with some apologies, and said, "Xiaochen, uncle was a little rude just now, don't care, these things will be handled by uncle for you before tomorrow afternoon." As he spoke, he put the slip away.
"Before the afternoon, I'll do it tomorrow morning, this little thing, just find someone to do it, and you still need to go yourself?" Kunde looked at his son suspiciously, he really didn't understand, what happened to Doron today, since he saw the list, his behavior has become a little weird.
"This ...... I'm afraid I'll have to do this material myself, otherwise the enchantment hall will ......" Domon hesitated for a moment but didn't continue.
"Show me, what materials do you have to do in person?!" Saying that, Kunde snatched the list written by Jingchen from Domon's hand, and immediately his face was also stunned, and he looked at Jingchen with some surprise, and said, "Xiaochen, in the past three days, you can make so many enchantment balls?!" The doubts in his voice were obvious.
Seeing the change in the expressions of his father and grandfather, and hearing what they said, Fordin's eyes suddenly froze, and he immediately remembered the scene when he was in Cologne.
It was an ordinary morning, and several people habitually got together after dinner, preparing to go to the Free Demon Hunter Guild to receive a new mission, but Jingchen was delayed, and everyone was puzzled, so they came to Jingchen's room. The next scene they saw was something they would never forget, and at the moment they pushed the door in, more than a dozen enchanted balls suddenly flew out. After those enchanted balls landed, more than a dozen enchanted puppets with strength above level four looked at a few people coldly, and the others were okay to say, Fuding, who had eaten with a round stomach, spit out one of the enchanted puppets on the spot, and then because of this, Fuding was teased by several people for a long time.
Then when they entered Jingchen's room, they were really startled by the hundreds of enchanted balls inside, and it was at that moment that Fuding and the others finally understood what Jingchen was doing when he purchased so many firearms, and Jingchen was so crazy that he wanted to form an army of enchanted puppets. Of course, about the enchanted puppet army, it was just the speculation of Ferding and others, and no one had seen Jingchen take out those enchanted balls again.
Thinking of this, Ferding hurried to his father and grandfather's side, and lowered his voice to tell him about it. Hearing what Fording said, the expressions on Kunde and Domon's faces instantly became extremely rich, they really couldn't imagine that there were still enchanters in this world who could make enchantment balls so quickly, at this moment, they couldn't wait to yell twice, this Jingchen was simply the savior of the Nordin family given to them by heaven.
Domeng groaned for a moment and said, "Xiaochen, don't worry, before noon tomorrow, I will definitely help you get this thing right." ”
After listening to Domon's words, Jingchen smiled slightly and said, "Uncle Domon, this is not in a hurry, when will you send it, and when will I start making it." ”
Seeing Jing Chen's casual appearance, Domon suddenly loved and hated Jing Chen, and secretly said in his heart, you are not in a hurry, but I am in a hurry, you must know that every time there is an additional fifth-level enchantment ball, the chance of his Notting family pinching the Lange family is one point greater, if Jingchen can make a thousand eight hundred fifth-level enchantment balls, then his Notting family can be ranked even in the French Empire. Although a single fifth-level enchanted puppet is nothing, as the saying goes, quantitative change causes qualitative change, and thousands of fifth-level powerhouses, not to mention that strength is a very terrifying existence in the French Empire, even if it is the entire continent.
Of course, Domon's idea was just his obscenity, not to mention whether Jingchen could really make thousands of fifth-level enchantment balls, even if he did, it would definitely not be possible to do it in three days.
Early the next morning.
Domon crawled out of the bed early, the early summer morning breeze, many people in Dores City have hurried towards the place of work, this war beast standing in front of the Warcraft Mountain Range, is also slowly waking up. At this time, on the lively street, a light looked like an ordinary carriage galloped by, and after a while, the carriage stopped next to the central square, the door of the enchanted hall, of course, this door is not the front door, but the back door of the enchanted hall.
There was already a middle-aged man standing here, and when he saw a man in a robe with his entire face covered by a hood coming out of the carriage, the middle-aged man standing at the back door hurriedly let him in. The two of them walked to the end of the corridor, pushed the door and entered a huge office, where the man who came out of the carriage, also with his hood removed, turned out to be the head of the Domon family.
After the two of them sat down, the middle-aged man looked at Domon with some confusion and asked, "Domon, although your family and the Lange family have been fighting openly and secretly recently, there is no need to be so mysterious, right?
"Alas. Domon let out a long sigh and said, "I don't have to do this when I came to see you, but today I came to your enchantment hall to buy a batch of materials." ”
Hearing Domon's words, the middle-aged man was slightly stunned, and said, "You have to come to buy materials in person?" Write a list, and I'll let someone send it over. As he spoke, he picked up the glasses on the table, stretched out his hand and shook it at Domon, who also understood, took out the list written by Jingchen, and handed it to the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man didn't doubt him, so he took the list and looked at it, but the more the middle-aged man looked at the expression on his face, the more wonderful it became, and finally he couldn't help but curse and said, "Domon, when did your family start a business of reselling enchanting materials?
Domon's face was stunned, and then he smiled a little bitterly, "You and I are both old brothers, and I won't hide it from you, my Notting family and the Lange family are now in the same situation, I found someone who wanted to buy a few enchantment balls, but the person made a bid, only exchanged and not sold, and the same level of enchanted balls was one to twenty, so ...... Alas. He sighed again.